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How to use lagged in a sentence

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For many years naval officers' pay lagged well behind that of Army officers.
I don't think we've had a real frost yet, though we've lagged delicate things such as the tree fern in readiness for the sere times to come.
Anarchist and socialist agitation lagged far behind on the scale of government concerns during that difficult decade.
Yet it still lagged behind the literature of other American minorities, especially African Americans.
British shipowners, however, had been slow to build tankers and in the tramp traders had lagged behind in adopting diesel propulsion.
Unfortunately developing countries lagged behind, with drugs becoming politicized and easy moneymakers by immoral officials.
We first conducted computerized searches for the year 1994 and then gathered data for the years 1990-1992 so as to study lagged effects.
We have to be cognizant of those lags and move monetary policy anticipating that it has a lagged effect on the economy.
However, these pipes could easily be buried underground and where they come to the surface they could be lagged so as to prevent freezing.
Europe's benchmark stock indexes have lagged comparable US measures this year, but they may soon start to pull ahead.
Meanwhile, the restructuring of non-bank financial intermediaries has lagged behind that of banks.
At the turn of the century, the military lagged behind corporate organizational development.
She remembered how there were pipes in a basement ward lagged with what appeared to be asbestos insulation.
However, the realities of these technologies have lagged behind the promises.
The expansion or quality improvement has, however, been halting and has generally lagged behind demand and the population growth rate.
The process of state formation lagged far behind in comparison with the speed-up of economic development that took place in peat mining.
To begin with, artists and critics, from academics to modernists, believed that American art lagged behind that of Europe.
Detective Johan floored the pedal, yet his conversion van lagged behind the awesome truck, on the last leg of the toll way.
Dean won the race, I hitting third as I had lagged behind when catching the float on the pool edge.
Despite being the crown jewel of the Warsaw Pact, East Germany's social and economic infrastructure lagged far behind that of West Germany.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All the stragglers who had lagged behind arrived, one after another, excepting the poor Canadian voyageur, carriere.
But for the moment, in his bodily weakness, his will lagged behind his brain.
A disturbed and doleful mind he brought to bear upon them, and slowly and heavily the day lagged on with him.
Being out with a party shortly afterwards, he grew silent and gloomy, and lagged behind the rest as if he wished to leave them.
Silvey followed close at his heels and DuPree lagged in the rear.
Steam jackets should be lagged or felted to prevent condensation.
The spring lagged on, accordingly, under these circumstances.
Jim lagged forlornly behind, and it was very anxiously we watched him.
Only Phaidor lagged behind, and as I started to follow my guard toward the gardens, the girl came running after me.
And if I hadn't been with you to-night you'd have been lagged.
As soon as they had admired the little birds in the large cage William and Cassandra lagged behind, and Ralph and Katharine pressed on rather in advance.
But to his surprise Willarski soon noticed that Pierre had lagged much behind the times, and had sunk, as he expressed it to himself, into apathy and egotism.
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